Abstract:
Energy planning has become more complicated in the 21st century of sustainable development due to the inclusion of numerous standards such as techno-economic, and
environmental considerations. This paper proposes multi-criteria sustainable planning
(MCSP) based optimization approach for identifying DGs’ optimal allocations and rating
powers. The main objectives of this paper are the reduction of the network’s total
power loss, voltage profile improvement, energy loss saving maximization and curtailing
environmental emissions and water consumption to achieve the SDG by taking
the constraints into consideration. Different alternatives are evaluated across four
aspects of performance indices; technical, cost-economic, environmental, and social
(TEES). In terms of TEES performance evaluations, various multi-criteria decisionmaking
(MCDM) approaches are used to determine the optimal trade-off among the
available solutions. These methods are gaining wide acceptance due to the flexibility
while concurrently considering all criteria and objectives. Annual energy loss saving is
increased by 97.13%, voltage profile is improved to 0.9943 (p.u), and emissions are reduced by 82.45% using the proposed technique. The numerical results of the proposed
MCSP approach are compared to previously published works to validate and may be
used by researchers and energy planners as a planning tool for ADN schemes.
